The existing infrastructure of the Széchenyi István University in ZalaZONE will be expanded with a new incubation building and tools and equipment supporting automotive research.

Péter Gáspár, MSc, the head of the National Laboratory of Autonomous Systems, took over the civilian section of the Officer's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit on August 20, 2021.

Dániel Rohács, PhD, lead researcher of the NLAS's Autonomous Aerial Vehicles research field, became the chairman of the coalition promoting the development of unmanned aerial vehicles and related technologies.

The topic of the INCOM 2021 conference organized by SZTAKI and EPIC CoE between 7-9 June 2021 was information control.

SZTAKI researchers also participated at the 35th National Scientific Student Conference (OTDK), and at the 2020 Scientific Student Conferences (TDK), from which several awards were taken.

​​​​​​​The Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory and the National Laboratory for Autonomous Systems participated at the exhibition of the MI Coalition in June, where demonstrations and projects were presented to the general public.

Bálint Vanek, PhD, Deputy Head of the SZTAKI System and Control Theory Research Laboratory, lead researcher of the Autonomous Aerial Vehicles application area of the National Laboratory of Autonomous Systems (NLAS) also gave a presentation at the online event Budapest Science Meetup.

Bálint Vanek, PhD, NLAS's lead researcher, presents in a video what the SZTAKI’s Aerospace Guidance, Navigation and Control Group is dealing with and how the future of aviation would be revolutionized by flexible wings.

The demonstration entitled "Wireless communication of self-driving go-carts and traffic control equipment", held by BME staff and scholarship students, was successful.